Word: swear
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President's House. Bhutto later recounted that at the two-hour meeting, he told Yahya: "You have been committing one blunder after another. But even now, if you don't listen to me, I will go into the background and keep quiet." Yahya replied: "I want to swear...
...Columbus until the Civil War. Even in the beginning, the cruelty, hypocrisy, and irony that were to characterize the relationship were there. Brown quotes Columbus writing back to the King and Queen of Spain about their newly-discovered "Indios" subjects. "So tractable, so peaceful are these people that I swear to your Majesties that there is not in the world a better nation. They love their neighbors as themselves, and their discourse is ever sweet and gentle...their manners are decorous and praiseworthy." However, these qualities were also taken as signs of weakness that could be profitably exploited and heathen...
...sets out to even the balance. To look at Dorothy and Lou (A. Larry Haines) you'd swear they were a happily married couple (though perhaps a little dull) secure in the comfort of their sleakly cozy, big suburban home. Well then, look again. It's their twenty-fifth anniversary (which Dorothy superstitiously refuses to celebrate) and when questioned on his fidelity Lou suddenly admits to having in the past had two affairs. Two! I've also had two, Dorothy bluffs (or does she?). And the two return to each other's arms only by dropping the issue altogether...
...added element of secrecy has given an even greater degree of impunity to the grand jury. Under the law, grand jury proceedings cannot be made known until after they terminate, and jurors must swear to remain silent about them. In earlier Administrations, the issues which now occupy grand juries were handled in Congressional committees; however cheap and degrading those committee hearings were, they did fall under public scrutiny and could be evaluated by any interested observer. But it has been an important priority of the present Administration to shift these committee duties to the less vulnerable grand juries...
...added element of secrecy has given an even greater degree of impunity to the grand jury. Under the law, grand jury proceedings cannot be made known until after they terminate, and jurors must swear to remain silent about them. In earlier Administrations, the issues which now occupy grand juries were handled in Congressional committees; however cheap and degrading those committee hearings were, they did fall under public scrutiny and could be evaluated by any interested observer. But it has been an important priority of the present Administration to shift these committee duties to the less vulnerable grand juries...